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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 27 >> She knew that breastfeeding was the most important thing that she could do for her baby in Special Care and communicated her breastfeeding plan to her

Nursing strikes with her son. Daughter required heart surgery after birth. Expressed breastmilk for her and also provided some for the milk bank. Working and breastfeeding.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 45 >> She was separated from her baby after birth and waited for four hours to breastfeed him. She was anxious that he would not know what to do but he latc

Loves breastfeeding despite painful beginning. Used nipple shields. Hates being separated from her baby. Feeding time is family time. Husband works away from home during week.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 27 >> She knew that the only thing she could do for her daughter was to provide breast milk. She learned from a book called 'Breastfeeding Special Care Babi

Nursing strikes with her son. Daughter required heart surgery after birth. Expressed breastmilk for her and also provided some for the milk bank. Working and breastfeeding.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 34 >> Most of the midwives were “fantastic” but she was furious when a midwife in Special Care gave her baby infant formula against her wishes.

Caesarean section, daughter in special care, thrush, continued to breastfeed because the baby had an infection. Long-term breastfeeding with her son also.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 41 >> At first, she was so focused on her very sick baby that she omitted to take care of her milk supply. She used regular expression and medication to bri

Breastfeeding easy. Baby critically ill at 8 months, eventually underwent a heart transplant operation. Fed expressed breast milk in hospital and baby returned to breastfeeding at home.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 27 >> She and her baby required specialist care after birth and were separated. Her baby was cared for by paediatric nurses and received her expressed breas

Nursing strikes with her son. Daughter required heart surgery after birth. Expressed breastmilk for her and also provided some for the milk bank. Working and breastfeeding.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 08 >> After a caesarean section she had skin-to-skin contact with her daughter for four hours before her baby went to Special Care.

Struggled to feed first baby, feeling very isolated in the Middle East. Second baby easier, fed through gastroenteritis infection. Both babies had short time in Special Care.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 04 >> She and her husband practised kangaroo care with their premature baby. The milk that she expressed was hard to come by and she did not like to see it

Baby 7 weeks premature, incubator and special care, 4-hourly pumping/feeding schedule, milk dried up soon after going home. Discusses mixed emotions, kangaroo care, pressure to breastfeed.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 25 >> She had two very different experiences of breastfeeding after a caesarean section. Positioning for feeding was important and lying down was the easies

Special Care separation from 1st baby emotionally difficult. Got into cycle of engorgement, expressing, mastitis, too much milk for six months. Has not expressed for second baby.